It seems more likely that this is a strategic move by Microsoft. In 2010, Nokia made the head of MS's business division its CEO, and then promptly adopted Windows as its one and only phone OS. I suspect you'll see some tight integration between Zynga games, and the Xbox brand very soon.

Kinda cool. Any positive Xbox One/Microsoft article is worth posting. Also Chris, I know you love the gran turismo series a lot. Have you ever played a Forza game before? I've read the Forza series has made a lot of progress and can be considered up there with GT series. I've never played either (like an hour of GT at a friends house on PS2). I was just curious though. Also, you are the first person I've seen to bring up this being a strategic move. Probably right too, I know I'd play Farmville on consoles, at least a little before I get bored and quit lol

Forza is the closest I've ever been to wanting an Xbox. I like it, but not as much as GT(although, I'm sure it has better menus; GT is legendary for its awful menu designs). Had GT5 sucked, I would have bought an Xbox just for Forza. Since it didn't, I didn't.

The news is utterly fantastic, but who knows how developers will react - People like that Fez dude, or the guys behind Oddworld have straight-up said they will never work with Microsoft again, basically. No matter how glorious the backtracking has become, the sour taste is still left in a lot of mouths.

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Still no sale until they get rid of the Kinect requirement.

Wait a year, they'll rip out the Kinect and knock the price down $100. And when that happens, I'll probably end up with both consoles again.

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There's a system without the required Kinect that's just for you, the xbox 360.

I don't think the Kinect is going away, they built their whole system around this and while they have changed a bunch of things to please people, this isn't one of them and from all the things they have said, it seems very impressive and I can't wait to try it out. I bought the awful Wii for party games when people came over, the Kinect could be great for parties and even the way they are implementing it in certain games is very cool.

Not for me, for Shoe Jr. I'm still on the fence as to whether I want this or the PS4.

Right now, though, the Master Chief Collection bundle is $350, a cool $50 cheaper than a PS4. Good price, and we're both big Halo fans. Figure I can get some use out of the console until he goes away to college, too.

Like in order for the next generation of consoles to get my attention in terms of being an all-in-one media center is Sony or Microsoft would have to say "Yo, we support the .MKV codec on video playback," drop the microphone and I'd be sold, basically.

Funny enough, Microsoft did exactly this.

And the PS4 still can't stream media from an external hard drive like the PS3 can.

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Again, I don't participate in console warriorism, but Shoe, you really should have gotten a PS4 strictly so you could be on the toilet shitting while streaming Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare to your PS Vita.

It really is the future.

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I think all the Xbox One and PS4 bundles use the digital download. I was looking into The Last of Us PS4 bundle and it's a digital download and you're right, they fucking suck. It would take me an entire day and then some to download that 80GB Halo bundle.

Like, I guarantee you that Bethesda's first ever E3 conference will be dedicated solely to announcing remastered editions of Fallout 3/New Vegas and/or Skyrim that are "aiming for 60FPS" and then everyone in the audience shoots themselves in the face.

EDIT: And I would buy the shit out of a Fallout 3/New Vegas remaster considering they're both still 100% unplayable on my PS3.

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New Vegas crashes every two or three hours I play it, and I play that fucker for 8-hour stretches when I'm in the mood. Bethesda games fucking everything up is 100% the only regret I have when I switched from 360 to PS3.

I actually just re-bought Skyrim for the third time yesterday because I needed something to scratch that itch knowing I wouldn't be able to touch New Vegas without it just making me sad.

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Well, I'm not going to get too deep into it. It's Shoe Jr.'s problem for now, not mine. I'm actually trying to resist the urge to buy GTA V again. I already bought Dragon Age for myself. Anything more and he's going to think I bought the console for myself.

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